10 Most Important Historical Events That Changed the World Forever

So while Great men lived their lives and made ours not so greats with the cramming up required to pass that history test, history is much beyond the battles and wars we’ve read about. History is history because it’s responsible for having changed the most basics of living of mankind. Can you imagine a day without using the telephone? Does not the discovery of that too have its grounds in deep rooted history? Matters so trivial are everyday affairs, imagine India minus the Muslim Sultanate, the tourism industry would have been in for a doom for India would have no monuments to boast of. Come to think of Britain without the Britannia or China without the Great wall of China. Further still imagine an Egypt without the mummies and the Pyramids, not so much a destination for your next vacation, is it?

That said about Architectural and Monarchical history, it is really the turning of eras that has changed the World. And a few discoveries, a group of voyages, and the battles we’ve all hated to rote learn all our lives, you know how important they really were? Imagine a world without America! Don’t give me that look please! Yeah, sure we can do without it more than we can do without China but who’s going to invest it China if not for America’s economy, which by the way is in more debt than you can probably imagine. So that’s how history works, it’s the story that changed the world but I am rather offended why it was almost always his story and not her story. No pun on the naming game, history has always been more about patriarchal norms and dominance of men. Alright now Mr. History? How about subtracting from you the episodes of absolute rule of Britannia? Now you know why they say there’s a woman behind every successful man?

10. 9/11- World Trade Centre Attacks

I’m sure you know of how four planes were hijacked by terrorists bringing about enormous destruction in New York on September 11, 2001. What you might be wondering is how it changed the World! It triggered the Global War on terrorism which you’d be surprised to know is one with most diversified nations participating. All those Antiterrorism laws we are now proud of were lead by these attacks and the general stereotyping of Muslims as terrorists and a major hatred towards the religion in United States in particular is still evident. Invasion of Afghanistan by USA to depose the Taliban and the Iraq war in 2003 are too believed to have been triggered by these attacks. They changed how the world reacted to terrorism, and the financial losses incurred due to closed stock markets for six days changed how the world economy functioned.

9. The Birth of Muhammad -570 A.D.

The Birth of Prophet Muhammad is not as important for being his birthdate as it is for giving birth to Islam as a religion. Muhammad was the founder and promulgator of one of the most influential religions in the world and believe it or not Islam is much beyond the terror it believes to have perpetrated. It was once the prophecy of love and it has acted like a bridge of knowledge leading to many discoveries of art and science. From pinhole camera to Mariner’s compass, from Islamic architecture to Urdu literature. Setting stage for Italian Renaissance and ultimately the Crusades. Islam is much beyond Al-Qaeda.

8. Birth of Christianity

And you think Christianity didn’t the World? Where do you believe the concept of devil came from? Hell, Heaven and Purgatory besides Satan are concepts given to the world by Christianity. Would you believe that Christianity had its roots in the early Jewish Culture and Paganism? That said, how it changed our world is that Christianity made men literate, it is often correctly said that no man of words could not know Christianity. Schools, welfare centres and Healthcare were first managed by the missionaries of the Church and if not for the authoritative church, the world would have lost on science, art and multiple revolutions. Now you know why the Bible is the best book ever written and the Roman Catholic Church is still the authority you’d not look beyond?

7. The Reformation

The Reformation was led to by the publishing of Martin Luther’s 95 thesis and was originally an exercise to question absolute authority and practises of the Roman Catholic Church. People in the 16th century were more literate than their ancestors and they reasoned more than they felt, and this made the Protestant Reformation a major European Movement. The world sprang up with Protestant churches while the reformers moved to the New World or America, but what was most important was the decentralization of power of the Roman Catholic Church and its Clerics and the idea to question ancient beliefs and lead life with a scientific approach. Industrial Revolution was never a possibility without the Reformation.

6. Medical Revolution

Imagine a world with no medical help or doctors? Scary much? That was how it used to be, why else were pandemics more deadly then than they are now? The discovery of Penicillin has saved more lives than the discovery of water purifiers (if you thought that was an important invention). Vaccinations prevented human race from extinction at a time when small pox was believed to be a punishment for evil doers. Realize now how life without medical revolution was? NO? Try not having medicines for a day when you’re sick the next time.

5. Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria- 1914

Now you wonder if that ever meant anything at all. It did, the First World War. It was only when Austria- Hungary declared war on Serbia post the assassination that the circumstances so invited the First World War and the world changed. It was the first time that wars witnessed modern lethal weapons including chemical weapons and tanks killing almost 9 million people. Entire Empires collapsed in countries like Russia and Austria. It lead to formation of the League of Nations, also giving rise to Russian revolution and ultimately the Second World War.

4. The Renaissance

You know what Renaissance gave to the world? Picasso, Michelangelo and Da Vinci and you’d still ask how it changed the world. Renaissance was no event but an age that triggered the cultural rebirth of Europe after it was struck by the destruction caused by the Black Death. Columbus and Vasco da Gama changed the World maps intended to look with new civilizations to offer. Books were printed and no more the educated were from the church, the common man had just as much to read as the priests and monks. It was not a cultural change but a breakthrough that made the conservative orthodox Europe adapt to the more logical ways of the world. And since there was no looking back in being the most culturally and architecturally rich continent in the World.

3. Invasion of Poland by Germany- 1939

Another event that made no change in the world? Read your history again because if not for this, Hiroshima would have been spared the atom bomb. With the UK and France declaring war on Germany post invasion of Poland by Hitler, what followed was the world war II which lead the USA and Soviet Union to become the superpowers of the World with Immediate Effect. Germany was divided into east and west to be occupied by Soviets and Allies respectively. Europe had lesser countries with their borders redefined and many British and French colonies celebrated independence. The Cold war and Arms Race too are blamed to have been triggered by the war to change world politics for years to come. But how it changed the world the most was that United Nations was formed (and how children in Nagasaki and Hiroshima were deformed).

2. The Industrial Revolution

You realize how today you are sitting in front of your screens in posh offices and are employed? Probably because somewhere in the 1760, the Industrial Revolution in England happened, or atleast began. It was not just an explosion of new technological inventions, the press and new ideas based on logic and reason but also an entire drive to drive mankind away from feudalism. An aftermath of the Renaissance, the Industrial Revolution was best received in other parts of Europe post the French Revolution that to an extent abolished Feudalism. All the healthcare, transportation and technology we today enjoy was due to the Industrial Revolution some ancestors brought about in the heart of the world.

1. Boston Tea Party-1773

You thought the list could have been better topped by what preceded, who cares what happens over a tea party after all, important stuff happens over coffee. Not really, not when coffee has been boycotted as the drink of the English and the climax to the American Revolutionary War is triggered? You know how that changed your world? America was the first nation to oppose the monarchy or tyranny of her majesty and with 13 colonies striving for absolute independence against the British Military, it was not only a war between America and England but also among major Nations of Europe with the French siding with the colonies. With congress declaring independence in July 1776, not just 13 colonies of the world were free but it gave rise to French Revolution, then Russian and then the war for independence in all major colonies was not far to follow. Great Britain lost not just colonies but faced major financial loses for its own economy rested majorly on the exploitation of these economies. So you know why America poses as the saviour of Mankind? They had once inspired you to not be a Britannic colony, then again the civil war freed the slaves and maybe just once more or once less.

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kavya.vidyarthi

As I have commented in other articles. I believe this article is a bit bias. Boston tea party had some minimal effects in the US (was was coming anyways) and the rest of the world was drinking tea happily not even giving two shits about what was happening in Boston.

JoeShmo

Perhaps the more appropriate label for number 1 would have been the American Revolution?

Roman Vw

china has had the largest population throughout history and ten of the 12 largest wars were fought there yet none of the significant events happen their.

JoeShmo

Nevermind that the real answer for number one is WW2, because it ties numbers 1,2,3 and 5 together.

Doc777

Only One event changed world history like no other. The death and Resurrection of Jesus paying the penalty of sin, demonstrating the Fathers love for lost humanity and the rest is history. Time itself was reset! Like Marcos said, the boston tea party was minimal, really insignificant.

steve

There’s no proof that happened though. If your going to go down that road you mat as well say the most important event was when eve ate the apple and then Adam and even somehow, through alot of incestuous sodomy, gave birth to everyonesee ancestors. The some people turned blaxk, some turned asian, and then some people somehow go to the other end of the earth and (while riding dinosaurs maybe?) And became may and and native Americans.

Doc777

Hi Steve, if you look at the historical evidence you’ll be surprised to see the thousands of documents supporting this claim. Origin, Tertullian and many Jewish and Christian writers tell the story. There is more evidence for Jesus then Julius Cesar and just about any historical figure. Even writers who disliked Jesus said that he was a man who was crucified and his 30s. There are other proofs such as my neck that was healed and 1997 in a library when my friend pray for me. I could tell you hundred testimonies that I have I witnessed.

lanite1985

If you think your friends prayers healed your neck then you are firmly indoctrinated in your beliefs and it would be pointless to argue with you. Can I believe a man named Jesus existed some 2000 years ago, absolutely, Was that man sent from the heavens to save us all, not a chance.

Doc777

How does one prove that Abraham Lincoln existed? Is it rational to believe personal testimony and historical documents? If not then throw everything you’ve ever Learned in life away and don’t believe in anything. This post modern age is inconsistent with its skeptic views. You can pick and choose what you want to believe but the very means for those beliefs is not allowed to be used in other areas another believes? You can poke fun at my neck being healed but it does not negate the fact that it happened. I would stake my very life on it. You’re not addressing the simple foundation of rationalism.

lanite1985

There are actual photographs of Abraham Lincoln so maybe not the best example. I believe in anything that is backed up by tangible and provable evidence,so apply those methods to prove your argument to me, I’ll eagerly await your evidence to support your theory that Jesus was the embodiment of God on Earth.

lanite1985

You believing your friends prayers healed your neck is not the same as it actually happening. You may in fact be right,but without the evidence to back up your claims I will choose to remain skeptical.

Doc777

Basically, why should I listen to your testimony as a basis of truth and reject everyone else’s testimony? I am glad you corrected me about being healed. I am glad I can put faith in you to set me straight. But if I do that I am trusting in someone’s testimony again. what would you accept as proof? Nothing?

lanite1985

You can’t prove a negative mate. That’s the thing, religion is not asking you to believe in something proven, all religions ask for blind faith. I believe in anything that can be backed up by demonstrable evidence,you want me to believe something then the burden is on you to prove that something to me.

lanite1985

You also talk about the resurrection of Christ as if it is fact and go on to mention ”Origin” “Tertullian” and others as if offering these up as clear evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ and as evidence that he rose from the dead. Your offerings of evidence are ridiculous. Using your method I could offer up any Harry Potter book as proof that wizards exist.

Roberto

Think chain reaction! The event by itself was almost insignificant. It had significance due only to the resentment it provoked first in the New England area and later throughout the rest of the colonies that were to form the basis for the new United States. That resentment got tangled up with a number of other issues and emotions, especially economic ones. And remember that there was a Boston massacre also, the same city where the Boston Tea Party took place. That city was a major in its contributions to what later broke out as the Revolutionary War.

Roberto

So, then, whenever you’re tempted to dismiss or relegate a single event to a heap of significance, think first if this one event can add to other similar events or emotions. In human beings, one single negative experience can deepen an emotional deficit and that can trigger a process called sumation. And that sumation can cause a person to decide what attitude he or she will take about any given issue.

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I really hate when people say the civil war freed the slaves. This an anti fact that is backed by political correctiveness alone. Slavery was already on the decline pre civil war and the South was on the verge of transitioning to a post slavery era. Slavery just can’t stop overnight. England and the north had already outlawed slavery and the South was next. People think the civil war was fought to protect this right. This could not be further from the truth. The civil war was fought over unfair taxation without representation from the north. The same reason the revolution against England was fought for. But history was written by the victor and it is much more demeaning against the south for the north to say it was fought over slavery rather than freedom from unfair taxes. Do you honestly think hundreds of thousands would voluntarily fight and die so a bunch of big whigs could keep their free labor? Not to mention the emancipation proclamation only freed slaves in southern states! The two slave states that joined the north were aloud to keep their slaves! A little bit of research will draw out these facts if your actually interested in the civil war. Facts like these are the federal government’s worst nightmare. You can’t have people sympathizing with people who rebelled against their rule.

baker

Indeed.
Especially the ‘history is written by the victors’.
The English Independence war was fought because of taxes without representation, however it was completely just taxation. It was all represented fairly. The Americans just wanted their independence and used the tax rise as a reason. Thus gave birth to the US, the greediest nation known to man.
So it’s not exactly uncommon for people to be misinformed when it comes to history. Especially if you didn’t have a teacher that knows their stuff.

No hate to the US or anything. Just putting this out there.

Chad Rickman

The discovery of nuclear fission and making of the atomic bomb has to be #1 most significant event in human history. It changed politics and the nature of war for all time.

David Henriksen

Haha what a joke! Boston Tea Party? How about we just immediately agree that number one is the control of fire.

Atra Mors Temnota

This sounds more like Western/European History, tbh

Madelyn O.

this post is extremely bias, not to mention the racism. its completely ignorant and narcissistic and prejudice these are not based off of fact or statistics so, tf.